{"id":143016,"date":"2017-01-26T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/143016\/tip-off-leads-to-arrest-in-silumaview\/"},"modified":"2017-01-26T15:52:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T13:52:57","slug":"tip-off-leads-to-arrest-in-silumaview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/26\/tip-off-leads-to-arrest-in-silumaview\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip-off leads to arrest in Silumaview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Germiston Flying Squad recently arrested a 22-year-old man in the Silumaview Section of Katlehong for possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made after officers received an anonymous tip-off from the community.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cPolice arrived at the Silumaview house where they found the accused. They searched him and the home and found a firearm inside a small carry bag, along with five rounds of ammunition and gloves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers discovered that the firearm\u2019s serial number had been filed away,\u201d said Capt Mega Ndobe, of the Ekurhuleni West cluster.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The man was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation has been launched to determine whether the firearm seized was used to commit any crimes in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The man will appear in the Palm Ridge Magistrate\u2019s Court soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141467\/police-investigate-concealment-of-birth-case\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police investigate concealment of birth case<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/140383\/community-marches-against-substance-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Community marches against substance abuse<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='43a1d845a8561432957a0bcea74c828e'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston Flying Squad find unlicensed firearm hidden in small carry bag in Katlehong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":143025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,3610,1015,1034,1314,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-143016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-flying-squad","tag-katlehong","tag-katlehong-police","tag-katlehong-saps","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","germiston flying squad","katlehong","katlehong police","katlehong saps","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}